We had two four masted schooners moored near where we lived. Each over 200 foot long. They were allowed to just deteriorate ,rot, and fall to pieces. They were major tourist attractions right next to a major highway. They were eventually removed as unsightly. Two more pieces of New Englands Maritime heritage gone forever. They were built around WW1 as shipping was desperately needed ,. The war ended and they were auctioned off,abandoned and fell to pieces. This barge sailed as late as 1996.
I think it is a shame to let a ship that was used in 2 world wars to rot. I will consider myself lucky to see her before she is completely gone. Thank you.
I would love to know about the rest of the ships. The only way to get to the fort is by boat as far as I know and I was surprised to see someone there. Thank you for watching.
There was an article about them in an old Coast & Country magazine back in the mid 70's Access is difficult due to acres of soft mud, if you are not experienced or have a boat or hovercraft dont go there. Drone is ideal as long as it dont crash land! @@johnnystrek5403
Incredible shots! Love all of scenes in your movie. This glorious music is adding just right amount of melancholy of this naval graveyard. Amazing video 😍😍
@@johnnystrek5403Very cool! If you ever get a chance, check out the forts on the Marin Headlands guarding the approach to San Francisco Bay. I've crawled through those old coastal artillery emplacements, but never seen drone footage. It would be interesting. Thanks!
Outstanding footage!. Much appreciated from a fellow shallow water shipwreck enthusiast. If I ever visit any part of the British Isles again, I feel I’m going to be mucking around in some mudflat somewhere for stuff just like this.
Like 635, Awesome footage capturing the beautiful alluring scenery, thanks for sharing and bringing us to this wonderful relaxing place and stay safe always.
Thank you. I believe it really set the mood I was trying to achieve. It is from the gladiator movie, death scene. I am glad they allowed it to be used.
Just approx 0.25 mile east of Hoo Fort is it's twin sister Darnet Fort. Both can be reached by boat - although officially you should have permission of Peel Ports Authority to land there. I've been to both. Hoo is accessed by a long and rackets ladder. Barnet is flooded but have kayaked in through the gate.
@johnnystrek5403 I hope you get a chance to do more in this area. There's a fair bit of history that many I guess people who live on the shores of Medway are unaware of. On the opposite bank to Hoo Marina, at Gillingham pier, you'll find the Medway Queen - another Dunkirk little ship only almost fully restored. Slightly upstream from Hoo Marina and on the same bank There's Cockham Wood fort and just a short trip further is Upnor Castle. Coming downstream from the U-boat, Burntwick & Deadmans Island are also worth looking at - although be aware I believe special permission must be given to set foot on Deadmans Island. I really enjoyed your vid though and I didn't even know about the Eno, so I've learned something new about an area that I explore often 👍
There are in fact two more U Boats hulked over there though you can only see the outline of the pressure hulls at low water. They are located approx 1/2 a mile to the Southwest of the one visible in the video in the channel between the mainland & the island to the south of Damhead creek. Located just to the north of the jetty that links that island to the shore. The mud there is bollock deep in many places.
Good oh, I saw a photo years ago that showed at least 6 Uboats moored at that location post WW1 prior to scrapping. The engines from one of them were reutedly used as emergency Generators in Southend Gasworks only being scrapped in the 1960's! @@johnnystrek5403
According to the Staff History, the Sailing Barge 'ENA' (Master, A. G.Page) did indeed transport 100 troops. The last lines of the poem 'The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna' slightly amended, seem appropriate here :- 'We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But left her alone with her glory.'
Thank you very much for the add of knowledge. Being there was a moving experience to see the barge in person while learning it's history at the same time.
I think about the days the ships & boats saw- just the day-to-day, workaday, average Thursday. The lives that touched that vessel, just getting on with the regular, dull, routine business of daily life. Not just the barge, but all those vessels. The hands that built them with skill and expertise and without any expectation of anything above average. The sailors who peeled potatoes and fixed lunch the guy in a bad mood because he lost at poker who is busy with some menial fatigue detail... The guys who were just alive and making things happen who couldn't imagine this fate or their own. 🤔🙂
I tried to research all the names I could read on the ships but not much luck. There were more ships with nothing but the outline left in the mud. So much lost to history.
Ok, I'm probably talking bottomless pits of money to do it and I know it was an enemy vessel, but I just can't believe there's been no attempt to recover the German U-Boat and preserve it in Chatham Historic Dockyard - which is only a few miles upstream. I suppose cost, logistics and the decaying state of the U-Boat are all factors but surely if the Mary Rose can be recovered from the Solent 400 years later, then this could also be achieved.
@sealark1719 the only surviving ww1 german sub is in Chicago I think. Historical pieces should be preserved even if it was the enemy's, it doesn't make it less impressive for the time.
il serait temps à notre époque de conserver ces navires dans un musée.. qu'en pensez vous ? d'autant que les u-boot datant de la première guerre mondiale sont aussi rares que représentatifs de cette nouvelle technologie développée durant ce conflit..
@@johnnystrek5403 that too, but how about just the day-to-day, workaday, average Thursday? The lives that touched that vessel, just getting on with the regular, dull, routine business of daily life. Not just the barge, but all those vessels. The hands that built them with skill and expertise and without any expectation of anything above average. The sailors who peeled potatoes and fixed lunch the guy in a bad mood because he lost at poker who is busy with some menial fatigue detail... The guys who were just alive and making things happen who couldn't imagine this fate or their own. 🤔🙂
From what I have read, the British got it after ww1, and she broke loose while in tow and ended up there. She was supposedly stripped of her engines and anything else they wanted.
According to youtube, the copyright holder allows the music to be used on youtube with no impact on the channel. I was really surprised and grateful. I think the music fits the video so well. Thank you very much.
@marianniculae I wish they were preserved, but I guess you can only save so much. After I left the UK I learned about 2 more subs and a ww2 aircraft also in mud.
If it is an MTB or a gun boat, my grandfather was based out of Ramsgate and hunted out U boats during the war time. He was awarded many bravery medals for his feats against the odds of being attacked from virtually leaving port.and loosing many mates in the boats. The navy are making a new display in Portsmouth to remember their heroic action and they have his medals to go on display and although not ready to show as yet, we as family are looking forward to seeing his medals and the display when completed.
Abandoned, brought there as a scrap tipe yard. There where boats Abandoned all around the fort island and many more I didn't show. It is the only time I have ever seen anything like it.
@johnnystrek5403 I like to think that the human race will eventually make it to a point where a future archeologist can say that we were just intelligent barbarians that wasted our best engineering on ways to conquer each other, but unfortunately I think it's just in our DNA to be tribal and there will always be a reason to fight the other team.
I have been waiting on someone to notice. If you zoom in at 4:10 you can see 2 other people. Funny how no one is allowed on the island. Thank you for noticing.
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What a shame. So much history being left to rot.
I agree. Especially since the one barge was used in World War I and the Battle of Dunkirk. I guess you can't preserve it all.
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We had two four masted schooners moored near where we lived. Each over 200 foot long. They were allowed to just deteriorate ,rot, and fall to pieces. They were major tourist attractions right next to a major highway. They were eventually removed as unsightly. Two more pieces of New Englands Maritime heritage gone forever. They were built around WW1 as shipping was desperately needed ,. The war ended and they were auctioned off,abandoned and fell to pieces. This barge sailed as late as 1996.
I think it is a shame to let a ship that was used in 2 world wars to rot. I will consider myself lucky to see her before she is completely gone. Thank you.
Was that the Hesper and the Luther Little?
Think I read about those, didnt they just fall apart in the end, and were demolished?
There's something about abandoned boats that is so poignant. Makes you want to go and see for yourself. Thanks for making this film
Thank you very much. We didn't even know about the hero ship until we were trying to google the names we could read. Definitely a good experience.
@@johnnystrek5403 it’s so sad that that boat was sailing as recently as 96
*Excellent footage of "Ena", "Hoo Fort", and the submarine. You would have thought they'd restore "Ena" as a history piece 👍*
Thank you David, the sun was not my friend that day but I had to go at low tide. It is a shame they let Ena just rot away.
Ena was restored some years ago for a tv program. th-cam.com/video/bVg_tIsC5xs/w-d-xo.html
These ships have done their work and can rest in peace. They have dignity in their decay.
@@thegreat_I_am beautifully said.
Thank you so much for this images of history👌🙏
Thank you. I enjoyed seeing them.
Lots more history from these wrecks than my modest wreckage scene - and that fort looks so isolated and hard to reach.
I would love to know about the rest of the ships. The only way to get to the fort is by boat as far as I know and I was surprised to see someone there. Thank you for watching.
There was an article about them in an old Coast & Country magazine back in the mid 70's Access is difficult due to acres of soft mud, if you are not experienced or have a boat or hovercraft dont go there. Drone is ideal as long as it dont crash land!
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That’s why it’s call history.😊
Thank you very much. I really enjoyed the short time I was able to spend there.
Incredible shots! Love all of scenes in your movie. This glorious music is adding just right amount of melancholy of this naval graveyard. Amazing video 😍😍
Thank you very much. I happened across 2 local drone flyers that day, which made it a great day.
This is a well made video of you! Keep up the good work and best regards 😀
Thank you very much for the kind words
danke fürs zeigen !
An interesting film about the abandoned ships, thanks for showing it 👍
Thank you very much for the kind words.
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I didn't know that there were so many ships off the coast and a submarine too. We were often in England/Scotland, also on the coast!
Absolutely amazed by your video. Thank you for sharing with us all. Viewing from So. California
Thank you very much. I did have a great time exploring the area.
That fort looks interesting and the sumbarine too! Used to live in Kent, but never went to these places.
Awesome and fantastic... Superb performance.. Wonderful flying.. Just superb performance👍👍 🌸🛩✨
Thank you very much. It was a great experience
Amazing! There's a lot of history resting out there on those mud flats!
Thank you very much. I just recently found out that there are 2 more subs in that area that I missed. Still a great experience.
@@johnnystrek5403Very cool! If you ever get a chance, check out the forts on the Marin Headlands guarding the approach to San Francisco Bay. I've crawled through those old coastal artillery emplacements, but never seen drone footage. It would be interesting. Thanks!
Very interesting, thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it. It was a great experience.
@@johnnystrek5403 my pleasure
This is another level fantastic work sir
I really do appreciate the kind words.
Very nice work mate
Definitely a good day. I just learned that there are 2 more subs in the area. Thank you
Outstanding footage!. Much appreciated from a fellow shallow water shipwreck enthusiast. If I ever visit any part of the British Isles again, I feel I’m going to be mucking around in some mudflat somewhere for stuff just like this.
Thank you very much. It was a first for me and hopefully I will be able to find more.
This is fantastic Johnny
Thank you very much. It was definitely a good experience.
Awesome shots mate well done 👍
Thank you for the kind words.
Like 635, Awesome footage capturing the beautiful alluring scenery, thanks for sharing and bringing us to this wonderful relaxing place and stay safe always.
Thank you for the kind words.
What a place,was that an old pier rotted away with everything beside it left to rot.Amazing place.
That is exactly what I was thinking. I just found out that there are 2 more ww1 subs in that area.
Wow that’s cool amazing flight ✈️ lots of history in this wrecks site, thanks for sharing 5:54 fully enjoyed, greeting from Texas 😊
Thank you very much
Wow great landscape nice shots and good quality, big like for you 👍🙂
Thank you very much. It was a good tip.
this is outstanding liked and new sub mate
Thank you very much.
Nah that sub is old af, it's from ww1! Oh you meant you.
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Very nice.
Thank you.
Awesome 👌
Thank you very much.
thats such a beautiful song
Thank you. I believe it really set the mood I was trying to achieve. It is from the gladiator movie, death scene. I am glad they allowed it to be used.
Just approx 0.25 mile east of Hoo Fort is it's twin sister Darnet Fort. Both can be reached by boat - although officially you should have permission of Peel Ports Authority to land there. I've been to both. Hoo is accessed by a long and rackets ladder. Barnet is flooded but have kayaked in through the gate.
long and " rackety" ladder
I basically stumbled on the area not knowing anything about it. I wish I would have had more time to explore.
@johnnystrek5403 I hope you get a chance to do more in this area. There's a fair bit of history that many I guess people who live on the shores of Medway are unaware of. On the opposite bank to Hoo Marina, at Gillingham pier, you'll find the Medway Queen - another Dunkirk little ship only almost fully restored. Slightly upstream from Hoo Marina and on the same bank There's Cockham Wood fort and just a short trip further is Upnor Castle. Coming downstream from the U-boat, Burntwick & Deadmans Island are also worth looking at - although be aware I believe special permission must be given to set foot on Deadmans Island.
I really enjoyed your vid though and I didn't even know about the Eno, so I've learned something new about an area that I explore often 👍
Awesome capture here well done see you soon be safe cheers
Thank you very much
Amazing 🙂
Thank you very much 😊
There are in fact two more U Boats hulked over there though you can only see the outline of the pressure hulls at low water. They are located approx 1/2 a mile to the Southwest of the one visible in the video in the channel between the mainland & the island to the south of Damhead creek. Located just to the north of the jetty that links that island to the shore. The mud there is bollock deep in many places.
Thank you, now I have a new mission to try to find the others.
I found them on Google maps.👍
Good oh, I saw a photo years ago that showed at least 6 Uboats moored at that location post WW1 prior to scrapping. The engines from one of them were reutedly used as emergency Generators in Southend Gasworks only being scrapped in the 1960's! @@johnnystrek5403
They are stern to bow and in a line just to the North of the causeway, right?
@@2068edward yes, I will have to go back and try to get some footage of them.
Wow !
Thank you very much.
According to the Staff History, the Sailing Barge 'ENA' (Master, A. G.Page) did indeed transport 100 troops.
The last lines of the poem 'The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna' slightly amended, seem appropriate here :-
'We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone,
But left her alone with her glory.'
Thank you very much for the add of knowledge. Being there was a moving experience to see the barge in person while learning it's history at the same time.
I think about the days the ships & boats saw- just the day-to-day, workaday, average Thursday. The lives that touched that vessel, just getting on with the regular, dull, routine business of daily life. Not just the barge, but all those vessels. The hands that built them with skill and expertise and without any expectation of anything above average. The sailors who peeled potatoes and fixed lunch the guy in a bad mood because he lost at poker who is busy with some menial fatigue detail... The guys who were just alive and making things happen who couldn't imagine this fate or their own. 🤔🙂
I tried to research all the names I could read on the ships but not much luck. There were more ships with nothing but the outline left in the mud. So much lost to history.
Спасибо интересно.
Thank you very much.
Nicely done video!👍👍 What stories those ships could tell……
Just thinking about the men trying to survive on that ship during ww2 is surreal.
Great video, that person is scary!
I never saw the person until I was editing the video. It was a nice surprise considering no one is allowed there.
Ok, I'm probably talking bottomless pits of money to do it and I know it was an enemy vessel, but I just can't believe there's been no attempt to recover the German U-Boat and preserve it in Chatham Historic Dockyard - which is only a few miles upstream. I suppose cost, logistics and the decaying state of the U-Boat are all factors but surely if the Mary Rose can be recovered from the Solent 400 years later, then this could also be achieved.
@sealark1719 the only surviving ww1 german sub is in Chicago I think. Historical pieces should be preserved even if it was the enemy's, it doesn't make it less impressive for the time.
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Thank you very much for the kind words.
What a shame
I agree. I wish it could have been preserved somehow.
il serait temps à notre époque de conserver ces navires dans un musée..
qu'en pensez vous ?
d'autant que les u-boot datant de la première guerre mondiale sont aussi rares que représentatifs de cette nouvelle technologie développée durant ce conflit..
I agree. It is a shame for them to be lost in time.
Damn whoever didn't preserve these
I agree, they will lost forever soon.
*Helluvva thing, ain't it? Once so vital, so many livelihoods depending on their success...*
It was a surreal sight. Just thinking of what the men went through in ww2 on that barge.
@@johnnystrek5403 that too, but how about just the day-to-day, workaday, average Thursday? The lives that touched that vessel, just getting on with the regular, dull, routine business of daily life. Not just the barge, but all those vessels. The hands that built them with skill and expertise and without any expectation of anything above average. The sailors who peeled potatoes and fixed lunch the guy in a bad mood because he lost at poker who is busy with some menial fatigue detail... The guys who were just alive and making things happen who couldn't imagine this fate or their own. 🤔🙂
someone needs to rescue the ena for history preservation.
I don't know if it is too late but I think it is worth saving.
yes i looked her up she's had quit a history
Is the sub a gravesite or scuttled
From what I have read, the British got it after ww1, and she broke loose while in tow and ended up there. She was supposedly stripped of her engines and anything else they wanted.
3:57 min. an interesting fort !
Excellent footage,What drone are you useing?looking forward to more from you!
Cheers 😊
I am using the mavic 2 zoom on my UK trip. I will be buying the air3 when I return home. I like the zoom capability. Thank you for your kind words.
Nice one! That's my kind of video, tho dont know how you didnt get a strike against the music tho? 😀
According to youtube, the copyright holder allows the music to be used on youtube with no impact on the channel. I was really surprised and grateful. I think the music fits the video so well. Thank you very much.
I m thinking there is no museum, or privat collector or some one with money and passion to save those relic???
@marianniculae I wish they were preserved, but I guess you can only save so much. After I left the UK I learned about 2 more subs and a ww2 aircraft also in mud.
One of the smaller boats to the right of the Ena bow seems to be a Vosper class MTB.
I wish I knew more of the history of the rest of the ships there. As a foreign I do feel privileged to have seen it in person.
@@johnnystrek5403 I am not from Britain either. I pointed at the boat, because, like the Ena, it is also a WWII relic and quite iconic one.
If it is an MTB or a gun boat, my grandfather was based out of Ramsgate and hunted out U boats during the war time. He was awarded many bravery medals for his feats against the odds of being attacked from virtually leaving port.and loosing many mates in the boats. The navy are making a new display in Portsmouth to remember their heroic action and they have his medals to go on display and although not ready to show as yet, we as family are looking forward to seeing his medals and the display when completed.
Not U122. That is U141, U145 or U150
Why are there so many abandoned boats there?
Abandoned, brought there as a scrap tipe yard. There where boats Abandoned all around the fort island and many more I didn't show. It is the only time I have ever seen anything like it.
@0:31 "resued"?
Yes, I noticed it a few days back, but it's too late to fix it now.
@@johnnystrek5403 Shit happens. I wouldn't be a regular on TH-cam if I didn't criticize what people post ;)
Ena should be saved and restored
I agree.
I wonder what the next civilization will think when they dig some of this stuff up in the distant future
That is a great question. It could go in either direction. We were very intelligent people or just primitive barbarians.
@johnnystrek5403 I like to think that the human race will eventually make it to a point where a future archeologist can say that we were just intelligent barbarians that wasted our best engineering on ways to conquer each other, but unfortunately I think it's just in our DNA to be tribal and there will always be a reason to fight the other team.
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no one talking about the fact there was a child in the fort lol
I have been waiting on someone to notice. If you zoom in at 4:10 you can see 2 other people. Funny how no one is allowed on the island. Thank you for noticing.
@@johnnystrek5403 my biggest question is why they have a bed roll
@@Shrimpmann I guess they are camping there. I was wondering how they got there. The island is surrounded by old abandoned barges and is mud.
@@johnnystrek5403 very strange, perhaps went on a small inflatable boat while the tide was higher and got stuck on low tide
Hope they clean up the shit that human create in the sea
the German WW1 sub is UB-122
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Thank you.
@@johnnystrek5403 your're welcome